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Successful ubiquitous systems need to integrate several underlying technologies including different operating systems, advanced middleware, several Internet protocols, sensors, actuators, I/O drivers and many others elements. This scenario means that ubiquitous systems software should cope with different kinds of software/hardware components, programming languages, and interaction protocols. In order to easy software development in this heterogeneous context, software architecture elements provide high abstractions that hide the details of specific platforms. However, a clear and common understanding of the elements that compose a ubiquitous system architecture and their relationship is still missing. Reference Architectures have been used to provide a common ground and to give directions for the construction of software architectures for different classes of systems. In this paper, we propose RA-Ubi, a reference architecture for ubiquitous systems that was build based on PROSA-SA, a process for the establishment of new reference architectures. Following PROSA-SA’s steps, RA-Ubi defines the architectural requirements of ubiquitous systems by following the literature about this subject, applying literature systematic review technique. As main results, we present RA-Ubi reference architecture detailing the role of each element and their relationships.
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Machado, C.A., Silva, E., Batista, T., Leite, J., Nakagawa, E. (2014). RA-Ubi: A Reference Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing. In: Avgeriou, P., Zdun, U. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8627. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09970-5_10
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